> Thus saying “People don’t want to run their own servers” is akin to saying “People don’t want to start their own YouTube channel”. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit.
The key difference is that starting a Youtube channel is free and dead simple. The reason people don't want to run their own servers is because in most cases it's as expensive, or more expensive, than having someone else do it for you, and requires a huge amount of skill and patience, not to mention risk tolerance.
In general, I think this article misinterprets the statement that "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" by taking it too literally. The meaningful counter-argument isn't "this cannot be factually true, some people want to run their own servers", because that's clearly not what he meant. Obviously some people want to run their own servers, and some people have to run servers to keep the whole thing going, but that's a trivial point rather than a devastating counterargument.
The key difference is that starting a Youtube channel is free and dead simple. The reason people don't want to run their own servers is because in most cases it's as expensive, or more expensive, than having someone else do it for you, and requires a huge amount of skill and patience, not to mention risk tolerance.
In general, I think this article misinterprets the statement that "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" by taking it too literally. The meaningful counter-argument isn't "this cannot be factually true, some people want to run their own servers", because that's clearly not what he meant. Obviously some people want to run their own servers, and some people have to run servers to keep the whole thing going, but that's a trivial point rather than a devastating counterargument.